Gusztav Jany

Gusztav Jany (21 October 1883-26 November 1947) was a Colonel-General of the Royal Hungarian Army who commanded the Hungarian Second Army during World War II.

Biography
Gusztav Jany was born on 21 October 1883 in Ragendorf, Austria-Hungary (Rajka, Hungary), and he entered the military in 1905 before fighting in World War I. Jany would rise in the ranks of the Royal Hungarian Army in the years before World War II, and he was given command of the Hungarian Second Army during the war with the Soviet Union. Jany was captured during the Battle of Stalingrad with several other Axis generals, and he was executed by firing squad on 26 November 1947 for war crimes. In 1993, he was exonerated by the post-communist regime.